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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial is a comprehensive guide to - well - modern JavaScript. Regularly updated and available both for free online (under a CC-BY-NC licence) and as an ebook, this tutorial introduces the reader to JavaScript as it is (or should be) written today. From JavaScript basics to object orientation, data types, functional programming and asynchronous behaviour, it covers everything the prospective JavaScript developer needs to know about writing high-quality, maintainable JavaScript code according to best practices. Read more

Cassie Evans – Animating the Impossible @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

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Michelle Barker – Modern CSS Layout is Awesome! @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

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Sophie Koonin – This Website Is under Construction, a Love Letter to the Personal Website @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2023

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Jeremy Keith – Declarative Design @ “Stories on the Road”

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Client-Side Rendering on the Web: Approaches and Frameworks

Exploring Potential Benefits of Client-Side Rendering Client-side rendering is a powerful tool for web developers, offering a range of benefits that can help to improve the user experience and performance of a website. In this article, we will explore the advantages of client-side rendering and how it can be used to create a better user experience. Client-side rendering is a process in which the browser is used to render the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript of a web page. This is in contrast to ... Read more

Harry Roberts – Get Your “head” Straight @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2021

At this year's Düsseldorf edition of beyond tellerrand, Web Performance Consultant Harry Roberts gave this insightful talk on how to design and craft the oft-overlooked (no pun intended ...) HTML <head> element's content in terms of performance: Harry Roberts - Get Your "head" Straight - beyond tellerrand Düseldorf 2021 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. Read more

Welcome Back: beyond tellerrand Opening Titles Düsseldorf 2021

Last week, I was at the 2021 Düsseldorf edition of beyond tellerrand. As most on-site events during the last two years, beyond tellerrand had been postponed until, earlier this year, they got the go-ahead that the event was finally allowed to take place again. In spite of the rather short time to prepare, Marc and his team once again put on a fantastic event. These beautiful opening titles celebrate the event's return to the limelight with the simple, but very appropriate, words "Welcome ... Read more

The Layers Of The Web – Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand Berlin 2019

Earlier this week - after a hiatus of almost two years on account of having been postponed due to the pandemic - this year's beyond tellerrand conference, an event about design, creativity, and the web, went ahead again. Even though Marc Thiele, the mastermind, organiser, and genuinely awesome person behind beyond tellerrand, ran a terrific series of online events under the Stay Curious moniker while on-site events weren't allowed to take place, it was amazing to be back at this wonderful event ... Read more

Second-order Affordances: Design & Quantum Superposition

A few years ago, having read a thought-provoking article by Csongor Bartus I wrote about design & quantum superposition. The main idea behind this article, and my interpretation, is that - similar to a particle, which exists in a state of quantum superposition - a design doesn't exist by itself but can only ever be realised in a given context and at a specific moment through observation by a user and possibly a device that design is observed with. The gist, ... Read more
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